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“daniel s pierce”

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  • The Great Smokies

    From Natural Habitat To National Park

    by Daniel S. Pierce ...
    Seeking a taste of unspoiled wilderness, more than eight million people visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park each year. Yet few probably realize what makes the park unusual: it was the result of efforts to reclaim wilderness rather than to protect undeveloped land.The Smokies have, in fact, been a human habitat for 8,000 years, and that contact has molded the landscape as surely as ... Read more

    $18.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Real NASCAR

    White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France

    by Daniel S. Pierce ...
    In this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel S. Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s, when the sport spread beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition. Real NASCAR not only confirms the popular notion of NASCAR’s origins in bootlegging, but also ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Tar Heel Lightnin'

    How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World

    by Daniel S. Pierce ...
    From the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation’s most restrictive laws on alcohol production and sale. For much of this era, it was also the nation’s leading producer of bootleg liquor. Over the years, written accounts, popular songs, and Hollywood movies have turned the state’s moonshiners, fast cars, and frustrated Feds into legends. But in Tar ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • NASCAR vs. Football: Which Sport Is More Important to the South?

    An article from Southern Cultures 18:4, Winter 2012

    by Daniel S. Pierce, Harvey H. Jackson III ...
    “The outlandish stories of the antics of early stock car racers immediately attracted me. Lloyd Seay and Roy Hall hauling liquor from Dawsonville to Atlanta one night and winning races the next day in the same car; Fonty Flock winning the Southern 500 wearing Bermuda shorts and argyle socks; his brother Tim racing with a monkey—named Jocko Flocko—in his racecar.”This article appears in the Winter ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Southern Journeys

    Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South

    by Brooks Blevins, Margaret A. Shannon, Stephen W. Taylor, Alecia P Long, Ted Ownby III, Harvey Newman III, Daniel S. Pierce III, June Hall McCash III, J. Mark Souther III, Brenden C. Martin III, Anne Mitchell Whisnant III0, Major Richard D. Starnes2, Harvey H. Jackson III3 ...
    The first collection of its kind to examine tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern history, culture, and economicsAnyone who has seen Rock City, wandered the grounds of Graceland, hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, or watched the mermaids swim at Weeki Wachee knows the southern United States offers visitors a rich variety of scenic, cultural, and leisure activities. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    A Century of Unnatural Disaster

    by Christine A Klein, Sandra B Zellmer ...
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    "A stunning and important book. It tells a sweeping tale of folly, greed, ignorance, injustice, and unintended consequences. We all should heed its lessons." —David Baron, award-winning author of The Beast in the GardenAmerican engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of ... Read more

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  • Satchel

    The Life and Times of an American Legend

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    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige“Among the rare biographies of an athlete that transcend sports . . . gives us the man as well as the myth.”—The Boston Globe**Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through dogged detective work, ... Read more

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  • The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

    Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection

    by Dorceta E. Taylor ...
    In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks; campaigns to protect wild game, birds, and fish; forest conservation; outdoor recreation; and the ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten League: A History of Negro League Baseball

    by Frank Foster ...
    Rube Foster, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard…they are some of the greatest players to ever play the game; so why have so few people heard of them? Because they never played in the MLB; they were the heroes of a baseball league often forgotten: The Negro League.This book traces the history of the league from the early days of Professional Black Baseball and the formation of leagues to ... Read more

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  • Killing for Coal

    America’s Deadliest Labor War

    by Thomas G. Andrews ...
    On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners’ families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six mines, ... Read more

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  • Forty Million Dollar Slaves

    The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

    by William C. Rhoden ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An explosive and absorbing discussion of race, politics, and the history of American sports.”—EbonyFrom Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist ... Read more

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  • Appalachia

    A History

    by John Alexander Williams ...
    Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores Appalachia's long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often contradictory images that have shaped perceptions of the region as both the essence of America and a place apart.Williams begins his story in the ... Read more

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